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Printer!!!!

Posted by NsThinh on March 20, 2001 at 8:24 PM

> Hi,
> My problem is that I want to print on the local printer the Graphics contents of a Frame or a Panel on wich I drawed something.
> First thing I tryied is print,printAll methods of Component or any or its subclasses but is does nothing just repaints the Component(reference says these methods are designed for owerriting..).
> The only thing that reacted was getPrintJob of class Toolkit.
> Ok.
> in the reference method is:
> public abstract PrintJob getPrintJob( Frame frame, String jobtitle, Properties props ).
> So i tryied this:
> -I suppose i get the instance of toolkit, ex:
> Tk1=FrameInst.getToolkit();
> - then, try to invoke Tk1.getPrintJob(FrameInst,"Bugs Bunny", ......?????)
> in the reference ITS SAYS NOTHING ABOUT WHAT Properties props
> SHOLD BE, so i tryied blindly :null
> and it opened a print job but the size o document was 0 and anyway no printing happened.
> i tryied new Properties() but the result was the same.
> so I AM BEGGING YOU, ANY OF YOU WHO KNOWS WHAT SHOULD I USE FOR props OR HAS ANY OTHER IDEEA ,PLEASE SEND ME AN ANSWER ASP.

> Thank you very much.